Academy For Jewish Religion

Our Mission

Since its founding in 1956 as a rabbinical school, the academy for Jewish religion has been at the forefront of pluralistic rabbinic and cantorial training. AJR is the only seminary committed to training rabbis and cantors as equal partners in spiritual leadership. Both rabbis and cantors are prepared to: the academy for Jewish religion serves the needs of the Jewish community by ordaining rabbis and cantors and training Jewish leaders who combine their mastery of the intellectual and spiritual richness of our tradition with openness to its application in the pluralistic, contemporary Jewish community, and an awareness of living in the presence of God.